Patents Assigned to Sony Corportion
  • Publication number: 20210110849
    Abstract: [Object] To provide an information processor, an information processing method, and a program that make it possible to improve convenience in reproduction of a captured image. [Solution] There is provided an information processor including a reproduction processing section that reproduces a captured image associated with tag information regarding a subject and identification information indicating relation of a plurality of pieces of the tag information on a basis of a set reproduction condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corportation
    Inventors: Yuta NAKAO, Nobuho IKEDA, Hiroshi IKEDA
  • Publication number: 20180302551
    Abstract: A signal processing apparatus of one embodiment of the disclosure includes a composition unit that generates first composite imaging data, by adding together a low-frequency component of first imaging data, a high-frequency component of the first imaging data, and a high-frequency component of second imaging data. The first imaging data is imaging data of a relatively wide angle of view, out of two pieces of imaging data that differ in angle of view from each other. The second imaging data is imaging data of a relatively narrow angle of view, out of the two pieces of the imaging data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Hiroaki YAMAJO, Masayuki TACHI
  • Patent number: 8842923
    Abstract: There is provided an image processing apparatus including a quantization unit that quantizes an image subjected to logarithmic conversion such that a quantization error is focused on a luminance region in which expansion of an error caused due to logarithmic inverse-conversion which is inverse conversion of the logarithmic conversion is relatively small or a luminance region in which no expansion of the error occurs; and an encoding unit that encodes an index image obtained through the quantization by the quantization unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corportion, Tokyo Metropolitan University
    Inventors: Takahiro Fukuhara, Hitoshi Kiya
  • Patent number: 8526284
    Abstract: A multilayer optical recording medium includes a plurality of interfacial surfaces that reflect an incident light beam, and neighboring ones of the interfacial surfaces has a spacer therebetween. When a light incident surface side is defined as an upper surface side, a different thickness layer unit including the spacers having different thicknesses arranged sequentially is disposed on the lowermost layer side, and the spacers each having a thickness different from the thickness of any one of the spacers arranged in the different thickness layer unit are sequentially arranged above the different thickness layer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventor: Tetsuhiro Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 8488430
    Abstract: A recording medium includes a photosensitive layer, a nonphotosensitive layer, and a recording layer formation region in which the photosensitive layer and the nonphotosensitive layer are laminated. The photosensitive layer includes a recording layer in which interference fringes formed in parallel with a recording medium surface are deleted or changed within a portion irradiated with focused light to record information or light reflected during irradiation of focused light is used to reproduce information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corportation
    Inventors: Kimihiro Saito, Yojiro Sumi, Seiji Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 8297892
    Abstract: A cutting apparatus includes a base frame, a pair of holder assemblies, an overhead frame, a cutter assembly and a controller. The pair of holder assemblies are operably connected to the base frame with one holder assembly holding the first workpiece and the other holding the second workpiece. The pair of holder assemblies independently move relative to one another along a transverse axis. The overhead frame is connected to the base frame. The cutter assembly is connected to the overhead frame and moves along a vertical axis and a horizontal axis. The cutter assembly includes a rotary cutter mechanism with a rotating cutting tool. The controller controls and moves of the pair of holders and the cutter assembly so that the rotating cutting tool cuts the first workpiece in a first desired configuration then moves to the second workpiece to cut the second workpiece in a second desired configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corportion, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventor: Esteban Arturo Alvarez Serrano
  • Patent number: 8254641
    Abstract: A biometrics authentication system includes: a detection section; a light source section including a plurality of unit light sources capable of illuminating independently of one another; an image pickup device being arranged on the same side as a side where the light source section is arranged with respect to the detection section; a driving section driving the light source section so that the unit light sources periodically illuminate by time division, and driving the image pickup device so that while an image pickup operation by a first image pickup cell group positioned near each of illuminating unit light sources is suspended, an image pickup operation by a second image pickup cell group positioned farther from each of illuminating unit light sources than the first image pickup cell group is performed; an image processing section; and an authentication section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventor: Koichiro Kishima
  • Publication number: 20120008288
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a module, including: a circuit board; electronic components mounted on the circuit board; a mold resin that insulates and seals the electronic components; a shield conducting film that covers the outside of the mold resin; and shield conducting walls which are so formed in the mold resin as to divide the mold resin into a plurality of regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: Sony Corportation
    Inventors: Sotaro Tsukamoto, Eigo Inagaki
  • Patent number: 8064596
    Abstract: The present invention provides a stream control device. The device includes a plurality of data processors that sequentially implement processing for stream data. The unit data of processing in each of the data processors has a certain data amount. The stream control device also includes a memory that is provided at a previous stage or a subsequent stage of the data processor, and stores the stream data. Each of the data processors includes a monitoring unit that monitors an amount of data stored in the memories at a previous stage and a subsequent stage of the data processor, and a data retriever that retrieves data to be processed from the memory at the previous stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Takatsuna Sasaki, Kaoru Yanamoto
  • Patent number: 7943254
    Abstract: An anode capable of relaxing the stress concentration and improving the characteristics and a battery using it are provided. The anode includes an anode current collector and an anode active material layer containing silicon (Si) as an element, wherein an anode active material layer has a metal element increasing and decreasing region in which a metal element is contained as an element, and a concentration of the metal element is increased and then decreased in a thickness direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Takakazu Hirose, Masayuki Iwama, Koichi Matsumoto, Isamu Konishiike, Kenichi Kawase
  • Patent number: 7684305
    Abstract: An optical pickup includes an optical system in which light from a light source is introduced through an objective lens into an optical recording medium and in which light reflected from the optical recording medium is introduced into a light-receiving unit and an objective lens driving unit for driving the objective lens based on a light output detected at said light-receiving unit. In this optical pickup, a diffraction element is provided between the light source and the objective lens, the diffraction element is provided with at least first and second diffraction areas and the first and second diffraction areas have such grating shapes that ± first-order diffracted lights diffracted are received by the light-receiving unit at the position in which 0-th order light and ± first-order diffracted lights generated from guide grooves of the optical recording medium may not overlap with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Yoshiki Okamoto, Katsuhiro Seo
  • Patent number: 7551328
    Abstract: The present invention enables image data with good S/N and high resolution to be obtained reliably in a short reading time. A CCD 102 is formed by arranging line sensors, in which detecting elements having a time integration effect are arranged in a direction orthogonal to a relative movement direction in which the CCD 102 moves relative to an original, in a plurality of columns in the relative movement direction. A signal processing unit 107 detects pixel components on the basis of a model for separating first pixel values obtained in a processing unit time by the CCD 102 into a plurality of the pixel components corresponding to detection positions of the object being detected, and generates second pixel values corresponding to the detection positions of the object being detected on the basis of the detected pixel components. The present invention is applicable to scanners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Tetsujiro Kondo, Takashi Sawao, Junichi Ishibashi, Takahiro Nagano, Naoki Fujiwara, Toru Miyake, Seiji Wada
  • Patent number: 7257831
    Abstract: A program distribution system enabling a user to easily buy a program includes a video server for storing a plurality of distributable programs, and a video on demand controller which receives a request for the distribution of a distributable program from an integrated receiver decoder. The distribution request is formed in a free-style text format described in the arbitrary style of the user of the receiver decoder. The controller compares a word described in the distribution request with each title of the distributable programs stored in the video server, and if a title that corresponds to the word described in the distribution request is found, the controller reads out the corresponding distributing program from the video server and distributes it to the receiver decoder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventor: Toshiro Ozawa
  • Patent number: 6937437
    Abstract: Each lock portion (15) has a front portion (23) including an anchoring pawl (24) and a back portion (25) extending in a direction opposite to the front portion. Therefore, when a slider (14) withdraws, each back portion comes into contact with the inside surface of a back wall (10) of a cassette shell (4) and each lock portion rotates in an unlocking direction. A bottom surface (109) defining each recess between engaging teeth (107) has a central portion which protrudes in a chevron shape. A corner of each protrusion has tapered surfaces (110?) and (110?). An anchoring pawl of each lock portion has a flat surface that comes into contact with one inclined surface (109?) of a chevron-shaped portion of any one of the recesses and one tapered surface (110?) of a protrusion disposed behind the adjacent recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Hiroshi Fujii, Sunao Kushiro, Shuichi Ota, Takashi Ota
  • Patent number: 6922376
    Abstract: An optical device is provided which has a light converging unit for converging the light illuminated on a magneto-optical recording layer of an optical recording medium and a magnetic field generating unit provided on the light converging unit towards the optical recording medium. The diameter of the light beam radiated on the magneto-optical recording layer of the optical recording medium is controlled by a light transmitting hole of the magnetic field generating unit. The light beam illuminated on the magneto-optical recording layer of the optical recording medium is not fluctuated in diameter so that it is possible to produce a magnetic field at a low power consumption. In addition, the magnetic field generating unit is not liable to be ruptured. There is also provided a recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing this optical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventors: Ariyoshi Nakaoki, Kenji Yamamoto, Akira Kouchiyama, Akira Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6457584
    Abstract: A protective cover is placed over a rack of cathode ray tube components to prevent contamination of the components and/or moisture damage to the components. Some cathode ray tube components, particularly funnels, are stockpiled so that assembly lines can be kept running even if the supply of the component becomes temporarily exhausted. However, these stockpiled funnels must be protected while in storage. The protective cover described herein can be fastened in place around a rack or pallet containing a stockpile of funnels. The protective cover can also incorporate moisture-absorbent elements to prevent moisture damage to the stockpiled funnels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignees: Sony Corportation, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: David Allen Murtishaw, Brian Michael Solomich, Edward Martinez
  • Patent number: 6163345
    Abstract: An innovative but easy to use on-line guide is provided to provide the user of a multiple channel television broadcast system a wealth of programming information in a simple format that is easy to understand. The guide enables the user to easily select a particular program to watch. In particular, when the guide is presented to the user, the guide covers only a portion of the actual television screen or display. The remaining portion of the television screen continues to broadcast the audio and video of the currently selected program. As a user scans through the guide and moves the pointer from one station to another, the system responds by automatically tuning to the channel pointed to by the pointer and provides the audio and displays the video in the portion of the screen not covered by the guide. Thus, the user can easily get an idea of the broadcast on a particular station without exiting the guide and without expressly selecting a particular channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignees: Sony Corportion, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Fujio Noguchi, Gail Karen White, Richard Gioscia, Peter Jordan, Setsuko Watanabe Blaszkowski, Kazuhiko Akaike, Mark Schaffer, Noriko Kotabe, Takashi Otani, Tadashi Kajiwara
  • Patent number: 5848235
    Abstract: A boundary scan analog signal test circuit for boundary scan testing of analog signals. The boundary scan analog signal test circuit provides for known upper and lower bound values at specified times for testing whether sample analog signals are within the specified lower and upper bound values. If the sample analog signals are not between the known upper and lower bound values, the boundary scan analog signal test circuit produces a result flag indicating a "not pass" for the device being tested. If the sample analog signal being tested is found to be within the known upper and lower bound values, then the circuit generates a result flag indicating that the device being tested has passed the test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 8, 1998
    Assignees: Sony Corportion, Sony Trans Com, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Scott, Kaz Takata, Toshiharu Fukui
  • Patent number: 5719634
    Abstract: Digital data comprised of bytes formed of a predetermined number of data bits are encoded for representation in a video frame. Each byte of digital data, or a portion thereof, is represented in a respective region of the video frame by one or more video component levels that are assigned to the region and which correspond to the numerical value of the data bits of the byte or of the portion. The digital data are represented in the video frames in place of a video image or, alternatively, are represented in the same frames in which video images are recorded but in the areas of the frame in which the video image is not ordinarily recorded. Digital data represented in the video frame are decoded from the video component levels assigned to the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1998
    Assignees: Sony Corportion, Sony Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter A Keery, Susumu Murakami
  • Patent number: 5717663
    Abstract: An information data recording and reproduction apparatus comprising a recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing information data with respect to a designated recording region of a randomly accessible recording medium, a recording region managing means for managing occupied recording regions occupied by the recorded information data in the recording medium and empty recording regions of the recording medium, and a plurality of input/output control means respectively bus-connected to the recording region managing means via a first bus for receiving data indicating the occupied recording regions and the empty recording regions via the first bus and respectively bus-connected to the recording and reproducing means via a second bus for inputting and outputting the information data via the second bus, and each of the plurality of input/output control means designates regions of the recording medium to record the information data and regions of the recording medium recording the information data
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Sony Corportion
    Inventor: Hiroyuki Fujita